While whether or not it applied to individual Nazis is a worthwhile discussion, it does explain a lot of the phenomena regarding genocide, which are not carried out only by fanatics.

I think that lately, the tone of the Newswire has been a mish-mash of snark and then earnest outraged concern that only highlights the contributors’ own biases. Like the coverage of the disaster that went down at the RWA - which was based on racism! - and the coverage was all ‘lol silly romance novels!’. Which would…

It distances us from the reality of those atrocities - that it was done by human beings and not monsters. I work with teenagers and one of the moments they tend to highlight is that instant when they go from imagining themselves as the brave resistance fighters and admit to themselves that maybe they’d be Bystander #7…

Yeah, I work in the broad field of ‘memorial policies’ (ie., how to talk about this kind of stuff) and that type of thing is harmful. You don’t need to make shit up to make the Nazis look like evil people. Like, if you decide that you need to come with worse things than Auschwitz, the subtext is that you don’t think…

Recyclable doesn’t mean that it gets recycled. I mean, I just ate take out so it’s not like a live a low-waste lifestyle myself, but the truth is that plenty of recyclable materials ends up in landfills.

This series has been vastly improved and I really liked this episode, but yes, Mary Shelley was weirdly sidelined and her important moment of empathy was based on her motherhood and she was important as Shelley’s wife, when we all know he’s remembered first and foremost as her lover and second as a poet. A weird note…

I’d say that the main character is Ashe, actually.

And in some of those books, they’re... actually racist. A kid could pick up The Secret Garden because the girl in the cover looks like them and then realize the girl is actually white and actually openly racist.

Okay, weirdest thing playing Sims 2: that one time I didn’t realize I had replicated systematic class-based inequality.

That at least takes some effort!

I’ve honesty never killed my Sims, unless it was for a good reason (like ensuring my Sims had full family trees).

Personally, for the ‘I don’t need a man!’ ending to land, I needed to see that Rebecca had a chance at love. She had her pick of guys - men who had grown and evolved like she had - and instead she walked away from that because she wasn’t ready.

Drowning your Sims in the pool is not... weird at all? Like most people did at some point (I didn’t because I like my Sims to be happy and I tend to play forever).

Yeah, as an outsider, I’m not really seeing how this is more predatory than having two/three versions for each gen.

Sure, and that one Spanish is neither ‘neat’ nor ‘organized’. It’s a mess, like all languages are messes.

................... what Spanish are you even talking about.

You need to hang out with more feminists or LGBT activists in Honduras. Granted, it’s probably likelier for people to use the -e, but the -x was in use in Latin America before ‘latinx’ came into being.

Such pessimism on a cosmic scale is undoubtedly the defining sentiment of the last decade, a byproduct of rising inequality, precariousness, and the growing unaccountability of massive corporate entities shaping our daily existence, while operating outside the realm of our understanding or our control

They could’ve just killed Clint, if you ask me, because he also has ‘red on his ledger’ and he also has motivation to sacrifice himself. In context, and considering that the OG GotG also died on that cliff, it came off as fridging. When we watched the movie, my sister said that of course, the one woman keeps it going…

That’s also a weakness. How Endgame handle Steve’s arc, for example, made a lot of the previous movies a lot more boring to me.